Built on the Deluxe Series platform, this Squier Strat features a rosewood fingerboard, Duncan Designed HR-101 pickups, large headstock, black plastic parts, parchment pickguard, modern two-point tremolo and five-way switching. This is a traditional Fender with a modern feel. The Deluxe Hot Rails Strat guitar offers high-output in a single-coil-size pickup with Duncan Designed versions of Seymour Duncan's Hot Rails humbucking pickups. Incredible sustain with a fat, full sound, yet still responsive to the individual player's touch! Includes a modern two-point tremolo, large headstock design and parchment pickguard.

Whether you're into heavy rock, classic, nu-metal, or something all your own, the Deluxe Hot Rails Strat has all the versatility and vibe you need!

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Well, I am familiar with the Squire Strats from the mid 80's being built excellent from Japan. Surprisingly, these Indonesian built Squire Deluxe strats have a neck that feels like the...Read complete review

Well, I am familiar with the Squire Strats from the mid 80's being built excellent from Japan. Surprisingly, these Indonesian built Squire Deluxe strats have a neck that feels like the 60's strats. Why doesn't the MIM strats feel this good? Over all a guitar that is built with a basswood body has an excellent tone for all around rock n roll. I prefer the basswood over alder for the rock style tone. The build quality is excellent and not cheap like the lower line squire strats. The deluxe series is a new better quality and I hope Fender keeps this up. I love the tone of this guitar. I think the quality is sometimes hit or miss in the setup. I got mine thru MF and it was sent with the setup perfect. Feels like a really good strat and the sounds are great. An overall excellent deal on the price. When more people find how good this guitar is I'm sure the price will get much higher. I really like my Squire Deluxe and will be buying another one soon to have a really good backup but will probably put a humbucker in the bridge on that one. I have 30 years of playing experience behind me so I know strats.

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I played one in a music store. I love Seymour Duncan pickups, first off. These are "duncan designed", so they're decent, better than most squier pickups. That said,...Read complete review

I played one in a music store. I love Seymour Duncan pickups, first off. These are "duncan designed", so they're decent, better than most squier pickups. That said, the Hot Rails (or this, a copy of it) is an excellent bridge fire breather for a stratocaster. You can play metal on this baby no sweat. However, it has hot rails in the neck and middle too, which gives you absolutely no versatility. The bridge is warm and hot for a bridge, but that same pickup in the neck and middle goes from muddy to insanely muddy. It would've been a much nicer guitar if they put something else in the neck and middle, like a cool rails neck and vintage rails middle. The rails pickups are good for string bends since they don't drop out during bend, but otherwise this thing is really only for metal.

I've never owned a low end guitar that sounds and plays as well as this. I bought with some skepticism after buying and liking the Squier Tele with humbuckers. Other than what I noted under cons this guitar is all pluses. Beginning guitarists may want to have an experienced player work it over before deciding. The pickups deliver a wide range of tones and are very loud. The only other minor negative is the frets need finishing but what do you want for this price!

Best guitar for the price I have ever owned. The pickups are almost worth the price of the guitar. My only con which is minor is the edges of the frets need to be smoothed out. Other than that this is an awesome Stratocaster. I bought the black one and a year later bought a white one. They can't be beat for the money. I also own a US Standard Strat. If it wasn't for the neck needing filing this guitar is as good as a US Strat or at least a Mexican. The secret to the foreign strats is to get ones made in Indonesia and then file the edges of the frets. Nothing else is needed. My opinion.

Overall it's a must have for my collection and i am a pro. This guitar ended up being my main workhorseAll i did was change strings because i use 11's and this guitar did not disapoint me. Sleek look, great tone, easy playability and at a affordable price. I love my new deluxe hot rails so much that i bought a new hardshell case to carry it in. It holds it's own with with usa models for sure.Buy it, buy it ....you will not be sorryMine had one screw missing from the pickguard but probably just a small oversite. Lots of bang for your buck with this guitar.I could not have ask for a better guitar for the cost of this gem

BUY 1 What a great sounding guitar! I only wish the pickup were tapped for single coil too. Neck is a little fat, but access above the 12th fret is great for lead. One hot puppy. I'm semi-pro and this has replaced a $2000 Les Paul as my go to axe. Remember this is a entry level and priced as such. If you consider that it's a 10. But matched with american strats/gibson etc. it's a solid 8this sound great and 3 hot little humbuckers give a tremendous variation an sounds.

all i can say about this guitar is "wow!"... i only played it one time before i bought it. the whole thing is an all out beast, from the wammy bar to the pickups to the fact that it has 22 frets... id recomend this guitar to everybody from Eric Clapton to Kirt Hammet, bc it cand and will do it to the very max. before i bought this thang, my main axe was an Epiphone Les Paul Custom. but now, its second to my Squier Deluxe Hot Rails Stratocaster... get it now while u still can!!!

Here we go...This is without a doubt a great Strat.I have to tip my hat to Fender/Squire for a great guitar.I bought a white one used from this site, and have been very tone happy!It now has been my go to guitar.If it anit on the stand its in my hands. Only issue I had is that the bridge pickup was installed in the middle, so I reversed the pickups and now its great. This guitar can cover so many styles. Squire has made a fan out of me...I own many of the recent Squireswith the Semour Duncan Design pickups.Fender/Squire/Semour Duncan=Tone Machine For Little Cash!!...Get Yours Now!!!

I own this guitar,first my friend I'm check on my local guitar shop on web site,Then there was new arrival guitar and its all Squier and looking on Hot rails the white one..and only 2 of them are available black and white onethen I'm checking about the review's on google and lots people said it was awesome and good guitar..so i ask my friend to go to the shop first to check it out for me then he test it too..he said it was awesome guitar,very verstyle and i want to know more about it.On the next day i went to that shop and test it both of them the white one and the black one.when i use the black one the fret edge is so sharp and make my fingers bleed a bit.then i use the white one,the fret edge is so smooth not like the black one.and the tone is so sweetand clearthen i ask the worker there is that has been book already or notthe he said "lots of people want to book itbut they don't pay the deposit yetand if you have cash now you can buy it before somebody else took it".Then i pay it cash on that day for 500+ just wanna own that guitar and its sound expensive cause its S.E Asia price..then now hotrails are one of my favorite guitar..and the pick up is so awesomepaint job also awesomei give credits on people who design itand with that guitar it help me to make lots of songs for my bandsbut only i didnt like about hotrails is the fret board wood..i want it maple not rosewood..because for me if they use maple one the tone will be more awesomeand the things i like the most about hot rails isits good for any genre..

ok, i've only played it once, but for a squier, it ROCKS! if i had some dough right now i would buy it. ya know, usually just the word "squier" on the headstock it a turn off for me, but i wanted to play it just because i had never seen those pickups before and discovered that squires can be awesome!

This guitar was a surprise to me and I'm not usually speechless by a cheap guitar but this one is amazing for the money. I was not that happy with the paint job cause mine had what looks to be little specks of dust in the paint, like the factory workers didn't paint it in a dust free room. The tuners work nicely and the bridge seems to be well built. The neck is a little bulky but works substantially well and the frets are not sharp around the edges which is quite nice. Where this guitar really shines are these monster pickups in the pickguard that can blow down a house. The bass in these pickups and the sustain creates a heavy metal that everyone should have. I am not a huge fan of basswood guitars but this guitar has some weight to it so dont think its going to feel like driftwood in your hands it still weighs about the same as my MIM strat. Compared to my MIM strat it could come close in comparison but the paint job is why I give this guitar a few less marks for excellence besides that your getting a pretty good deal anyway and if you wanted to shell out the cash go ahead and paint it another color yourself.